A judge has granted the Press Association and The Independent permission to publish details of a Court of Protection case where a £24,000 painting was auctioned-off to pay an elderly man’s care home fees.

Essex County Council sold the painting Stratford-upon-Avon Sunset by Lucien Pissarro for £24,000.

Judge Anselm Eldergill granted the council permission to sell the 1906 painting because the elderly man could not afford the £400 a month fees.